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Social Policy in Africa

Social Policy in Africa. Gustave NEBIÉ Chief Social Policy UNICEF Mali. outline. Data and Analysis for evidence ; Influencing Policies : the PRSP and SWAps ; Monitoring Public expenditures : Social Budgeting ; Protecting the most vulnerables : Social Protection

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Social Policy in Africa

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  1. Social Policy in Africa Gustave NEBIÉ Chief Social Policy UNICEF Mali

  2. outline • Data and Analysis for evidence; • InfluencingPolicies: the PRSP and SWAps; • Monitoring Public expenditures: Social Budgeting; • Protecting the mostvulnerables: Social Protection • Collaboration withotherdonors and UN Agencies

  3. 1. Evidence • Data collection and Management: DHS/MICS/SMART/DevInfo • Analysis/Studies: 7 studies funded by UNICEF Mali in the past 3 years and more than 15 studies sponsored: • Social protection and children; • Child Poverty and Disparities; • The impact of food prices increase on Children Poverty and the Policy responses; • Gender Inequality and Poverty, etc.

  4. Child Poverty and Disparities Studies – 52 countries

  5. 2. Influencing Policies • Engaging in the PRSP preparation • AnalysingPoverty and Vulnerability • Priorityareas for the next 5 years: Producing Policy notes to influence; (Governementtoo focus on growth) • Objectives to beachieved: DevInfofullyused • Strategyto achieve the objectives: Studies and analysisproduced by UNICEF used; • Monitoring and Evaluation: UNICEF Expertise in M&E and DevInfoused; • Fullyparticipating in itsannualreview

  6. 3. Social Budgeting • Linkage between the PRSP and the national Budget: how does the planned budget reflect the priorities of the PRSP? • Public Expenditure Review: Which sector is getting what in the budget ex post? • Expenditure tracking: Do the resources allocated to a sector really reach the targeted beneficiaries? • Benefit incidence analysis: Who is benefiting from the Public resources?

  7. Social Budgeting: UNICEF Engagement in 95 Countries

  8. Social Protection in Africa: cash transfers Countries withonlyconditionnal cash transfers Countries withonly non conditionnal cash transfer Countries withbothconditionnal and non conditionnal cash transfer Countries with not known cash transfer programmes Transfers to poorhouseholds: Ethiopia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ghana Child Benefit: Ethiopia, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Lesotho Disability pension : Lesotho, Namibie, South Africa Social Pensions : Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa Source : Garcia et Moore (résultats préliminaires) Countries not included in the study

  9. 4. Social Protection • Pilot cash transfer for education during the past programme cycle 2003-2007; • Study on social protection for children in 2008; • National Forum on Social Protection for Children in 2009; • New National Social Protection Plan 2011-2015, including for the first time cash transfers; • Discussion with the Gate Foundation and the Sweedish cooperation for scaling up SP

  10. 5. Collaboration with other Development Partners • UNICEF is leading the UN task force to influence the next PRSP; • UNICEF ischairing the donorthematic group on Health; • UNICEF has an agreement with the World Bank on Social Protection; • UNICEF isworkingwith the IMF to set floor on social spending in the programme between the IMF and the Government • UNICEF isfullyparticipating in the donorsMacroeconomic and Poverty Group

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